This idea was a collaboration between our fourth grade team. We noticed that our students needed more exposure to character trait vocabulary words and their meanings. They also needed to practice proving that characters were displaying these traits using textual justification. So we created Character Trait Charlie! Each week, we replaced 6 of our regular spelling words with character trait words. We study the words and describe the actions, feelings, thoughts, and words that a character with this trait would use/have. Then we categorize each trait as positive or negative. It's so easy to refer to these words as we are reading now that we have studied them and they are always visible.
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